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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SVR3.2 backward compatibility
Message-ID: <1663@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 19:47:51 GMT
References: <214@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <214@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:

>    I've been trying to follow the remarks about the release of 3.2
> Unix from a couple vendors. If I understand what everyone is saying,
> 3.2 is supposed to have "binary compatibility" with the other Unix's
> of the world.

>    My question is, will only the various 3.2 releases from each of the
> vendors have binary compatibility with the *other* 3.2 releases; or
> will it also work with current 3.0/3.1 releases ?

It is even better than it sounds.  Binary compatibility includes all
of the System 5 COFF programs for the 386 and I expect the 286) as
well as XENIX binaries for the 8086, 80286 and 80386.  I tried a few
XENIX binaries on ENIX over the weekend.  All worked fine.
-- 
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